'Way Out' George Harrison At Chiswick Park In London, England | May 1966 © Robert Whitaker

My favourite Lennon and McCartney's quotes where they express love to each other

I don't know if they were soulmates, lovers, something else or all of the above; there's no doubt they loved each other. I know there's a lot of quotes but these touch my heart the most <3

PAUL

- ‌Me and John, we’d known each other for a long time. Along with George and Ringo, we were best mates. And we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other. But that’s what we did, round about that time, that’s what we did a lot. And it was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person.

- ‌I was thinking the other day, ‘I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together. (…) I’d just sit around and hug him forever. That’s the depth of my feeling for him.

- ‌But the great thing about me and John was it was me and John, end of story.

- ‌When I painted him recently, I found myself saying "How do his lips go? I can't remember". Then I would think, "Of course you know. You wrote all those songs facing each other".

- ‌John and I were perfect, really, for each other.

- ‌We grew up literally in the same bed because when we were on holiday, hitchhiking or whatever, we would share a bed.

- ‌I dream about him.

- ‌I mean, we had a wonderful... I had a wonderful time with one of the most world's talented people. - John and I were two of the luckiest people in the twentieth century to have found each other. The partnership, the mix, was incredible. We both had submerged qualities that we each saw and knew. I had to be the bastard as well as the nice melodic one and John had to have a warm and loving side for me to stand him all those years. John and I would never have stood each other for that length of time had we been just one-dimensional. - We wrote our first songs together, we grew up together and we lived our lives together. And when we’d do it together, something special would happen. There’d be that little magic spark. I still remember his beery old breath when I first met him here [Woolton church fete] that day. But I soon came to love that beery old breath. And I loved John.

JOHN

- ‌I've compared to a marriage a million times and I hope it's... understable. For people that aren't married. Or any relationship. It was a LONG relationship. It started many, many years before the American public, or the English public for that matter, knew us. Paul and I were together since he was 15, I was 16.

- ‌How can you be suprised by your brother since you were 15?

- ‌We were recording the other night, and I just wasn't there. Neither was Paul. We were like two robots going through the motions. We do need each other alot. When we used to get together after a month off, we used to be embarrassed about touching each other. We'd do an elaborate handshake just to hide the embarrassement... or we did mad dances. Then we got to hugging each other.

- ‌I think it's [writing songs] partly something natural - and partly something that Paul and I spark off in each other. [...] Some people say it's a speculative stock because no one knows how long Paul and I will stay together. But we intend to stick together and if you can write songs, you can write them all your life.

- ‌Throughout my career, I’ve selected to work with – for more than a one-night stand, say, with David Bowie or Elton John – only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I brought Paul into the original group, the Quarrymen, he brought George in, and George brought Ringo in. And the second person who interested me as an artist and somebody I could work with was Yoko Ono. That ain’t bad picking.

- ‌Nobody ever said anything about Paul's having a spell on me or my having one on Paul! They never thought that was abnormal in those days, two guys together, or four guys together! Why didn't they ever say, 'How come those guys don't split up? I mean, what's going on backstage? What is this Paul and John business? How can they be together so long?

- ‌But the only - the person I actually picked up as my partner, who I'd recognised had talent, and I could get on with, was Paul. Now, 12 or however many years later, I met Yoko, I had the same feeling. It was a different feel, but I had the same feeling. So I think as a talent scout, I've done pretty damn well! - I’d like to thank Elton [John] and the boys for having me on tonight. We tried to think of a number to finish off with so I can get out of here and be sick, and we thought we’d do a number of an old, estranged fiancé of mine, called Paul. This is one I never sang. It’s an old Beatle number and we just about know it.

George Harrison (1971)

starts shaking violently

Get Back: Part 2 - Stand Out Moments

The camera staying fixed on Paul's face so we can see the exact moment his heart breaks into a million pieces

Mal asking Paul if he wants to speak to John and no one noticing Ringo's hand going up as Paul rushes to the phone

Paul saying "stay out of it Yoko" when Linda spoke up during the group conversation - assuming Peter Jackson cut out the part where Paul got slapped in response

Lunchroom tapes loud and clear and with labelled subtitles!! - Give me all of it Peter!!

Dropping in on the alternative universe where Paul's a rogue English teacher who teaches the kids piano instead of sticking to the curriculum

A glimpse into the better world we could have had when McCartney/Starkey was the prominent songwriting duo of the band

Paul serenading the love of his life (Ringo) at the piano

Paul and Ringo feeling kinky and getting their S&M gear out - yes Ringo! Hang Paul by his ass!

John talking in gobbledygook because he knows that will make Paul laugh like a maniac - spoiler, it does!

Most mature take on John and Yoko's relationship, this side of the millennium, by the Apple Scruffs

"The Beatles?" "Nah, I care about Paul McCartney first and foremost... f*ck the Beatles"

John and George's "fisticuffs" showdown

John telling Paul to sing when he unilaterally decides to stop singing his harmony part on Dig A Pony - very reminiscent of the No Reply sessions

The look of amazement on Paul's face when Billy plays the keyboards for the first time

John's flamenco style guitar run on Don't Let Me Down

Allen Klein klaxon and the expert editorial choice to play You Never Give Me Your Money over this segment

Paul and Yoko being the superior musical collaboration - sorry John!

Robert Fraser!!!

Paul and George playing together nicely on Get Back

Yoko with the most half-assed "Poor John" ever when he details the strain on his voice from the prior day's session

Jimmie Nicol slander

Glyn Johns getting verbally abused by John and Paul

"And the dream I had was you..." *camera pans to Paul*

John and Paul being surprised by how good they sang on Two of Us

Paul (FINALLY!!!) clocking the musical dialogue between his and John's songs, right before John suggests it's like they're lovers...

George's growth with Two of Us from "anguish" to calling it "lovely" and wanting it as a B-side to Get Back

Pattie drifting in like a queen and George calling her over for a hug and a kiss

John giving his microphone a BJ while not breaking eye contact with Paul and stating he doesn't regret *ANYTHING* about India - Mature themes indeed!

George dragging everyone when he said if they'd been themselves in India they wouldn't be any of what they are now

Paul and Mal dragging MLH on to the roof like he's a sack of potatoes

Bob & George + yellow flowers 🌼

thinking about how one of the first big moves george makes post-breakup is to run away to new york to record the dylan sessions

george harrison & bob dylan ca. may, 1970. around this time they recorded some of the songs recently released on dylan’s outtakes album for the sessions that would eventually produce self portrait & new morning, 1970 album.

George Harrison & John Lennon at Dromoland Castle in Ireland | 27 March 1964 (II)

George Harrison during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour in Plymouth, England | 12 September 1967

"I think a good song or a good film or a good book, they don't work because they're making you feel the pain of the characters, they work because they're tricking you into feeling your own. Somehow when you relate to a character in a song or a book or a film, and that character's suddenly having a hard time or something horrible is happening to them or they die, it's pulling emotion out of you that's really just you allowing yourself to feel your own pain. There's something about that I just think is really powerful and amazing. " – Chris Cornell

John Lennon & George Harrison | 1969 © Bruce McBroom